Happy Monday Mindset!
I hosted my dear friend Dr. Petra Frese on a Fit Body Mastermind call a couple of weeks ago.
Petra is a survivor of the hard socialist rule of East Germany post-World War II.
She was 22 years old on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.
On a cold morning, she waited 5+ hours to walk through a little crevice in the fractured wall with terror and excitement to taste freedom for the first time.
Something most of us took for granted.
It was an inspiring interview with a lot of takeaways, including a massive perspective shift.
However, 1 question I asked her hasn’t left me.
I asked:
“Petra – what’s the #1 thing Americans take for granted?”
Her response:
“Americans take the ultimate freedom for granted: Freedom of Speech.”
You see, this is a liberty not granted to most of humanity even today.
Using “first principles” physics thinking, all of our entrepreneurial freedom hinges on this.
While this has societal and political implications that are near and dear.
This is because my great grandparents escaped the communist regime in Poland, like many of our ancestors.
However, I look at her feedback from a leadership framework, which is the spirit of today’s mindset message.
Leaders create a strong feedback culture where people are comfortable sharing the good, bad, and ugly.
This is mission-critical to ensure your team, clients, and family are heard.
When done, this benefits your client’s experience when feedback can be shared freely.
The dichotomy of this is that just because you can say something, it doesn’t mean you should.
There can and will be consequences for what you say, rightfully so, which is the dichotomy.
With great freedom comes great responsibility.
However, strong leadership leans into the danger and creates space for a feedback culture.
Short term, this can sting.
Long term, this is beneficial to your organization as human nature can analyze both good and bad ideas.
With space, eventually, the good rise to the top.
However, this can only be done if you, as the leader, create the space for dialogue, which is today’s lesson.
After all, Good Leaders Create A Strong Feedback Culture.
Make it a GREAT week!
Bryce Henson
CEO, Fit Body
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